Tag: Roger Goodell

A few Dolphins related notes to get you through this sloooooooooow Thursday (we’ve been writing that a lot lately, huh?):

1. Chad Henne, Alpha Dog.

Henne may have been given the keys to the offense before last season, but the leadership role he had to earn. His teammates didn’t vote him a team captain, and Henne is trying to rectify that this offseason as he has asserted himself as the team’s leader …

The wife of Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall is back in a Broward County jail Friday afternoon for violating a court order to stay away from Marshall and their house following a late-April stabbing incident.

AVENTURA – The Dolphins’ players finally got a chance to speak with their coaches Friday morning at the FinsWeekend charity golf tournament at Turnberry Isle. But with the NFL lockout still in effect, the talk focused more on their golf games than X’s and O’s.

“The good thing is we get to see the coaches a little bit, even though we can only say, ‘Hey, hello, how you doing?’” quarterback Chad …

Though Brandon Marshall appeared to be the victim when he was allegedly stabbed by his wife on April 22, the Dolphins’ star receiver is still being monitored by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, anyway.

Goodell, in Indianapolis wrapping up a three-day set of owners’ meetings, said today that “We are aware of the incident, and certainly we will follow that incident,” while noting that he has not yet spoken with Marshall.

Yeah, so are we. And so are the players. And the coaches. And general managers. And Roger Goodell.

But the players’ attorney, Mark Levin, sent out a memo to players and agents on Tuesday trying to clear up where everything currently stands. One of his points of emphasis was to tell current free agents to have their agents start shopping their services …

Now that the NFL lockout has been lifted — at least temporarily, as the owners attempt to appeal yesterday’s ruling in Minnesota federal court — players on the Dolphins and the other 31 NFL teams are free to enter their team facilities today and converse with their coaches and management for the first time since the lockout began in early March.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell declined to answer last week during a conference call with Miami Dolphins season ticket holders whether the league has a drop-dead date for canceling the 2011 season if the lockout extends into the fall, and said he isn’t even thinking about that possibility now.

But according to a report by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the 2011 NFL schedule gives us a pretty good idea about the NFL’s contingency …

That’s the only way to explain the events of Friday’s labor negotiations between the two sides. The owners challenged the players to decertify the union, the players called their bluff, the owners instituted a lockout, and both sides flooded my inbox with statements, proposals that were left on the table and explanations why the negotiations fell apart, and how the other side is …